Finance Analyst at Digital Echoes Ltd (2025-01 – Present)
Finance and reporting role within a dynamic commercial environment, responsible for month-end activities, financial modelling, and stakeholder-facing analysis.
- Manage month-end close activities including balance sheet reconciliations, accruals management, and completion of accounting entries and recharges across multiple business units.
- Prepare and maintain management accounts with clear actuals vs plan commentary, ensuring accuracy and full supporting documentation for audit and control purposes.
- Develop and maintain Power BI dashboards and automated ETL pipelines, reducing reporting cycle time by 50% and saving 10+ hours per week.
- Improved forecast accuracy by 28% through scenario modelling and trend analysis, strengthening the reliability of P&L and cash flow plans.
- Partner with commercial and operational teams to support forecasting and planning activities, translating complex financial data into clear insight for non-finance audiences.
- Identify anomalies in financial data, escalating issues and proposing corrective actions to strengthen internal controls and reporting integrity.
- Support spend management and cost control initiatives, identifying £4,000 in cost savings through detailed expense and vendor spend analysis.
Data / Finance Analyst at SWETS Marine Consultancy Ltd (2023-04 – 2024-12)
Dual finance and data analyst role within an international organisation, delivering month-end financial control, balance sheet management, and strategic reporting across divisions.
- Led month-end reporting and financial control across multiple business units, including balance sheet reconciliations, accruals management, and accurate completion of accounting entries.
- Managed recharge processes and ensured full supporting documentation was maintained for all accounting entries in line with internal audit standards.
- Cut the financial reporting cycle by 40% (10 days to 6 days) by automating monthly, quarterly, and annual reports using Power BI dashboards, accelerating stakeholder insights.
- Averted $50K in potential cash flow risks by building early-warning KPI dashboards detecting payment delays, invoice discrepancies, and revenue recognition anomalies in real time.
- Presented data-driven financial recommendations to senior leadership, directly influencing $2M in strategic investment decisions through market trend and internal capability analysis.
- Designed and maintained financial datasets, models, and BI dashboards, improving accuracy of revenue, cost, and profitability reporting across departments.
- Collaborated with control teams and supply chain functions to support forecasting and planning activities, ensuring data integrity across ERP systems.
Finance Analyst at Sylip Corporation Ltd (2021-09 – 2023-03)
Finance analyst role within a global organisation, supporting multi-regional reporting, data warehouse management, and strategic financial analysis.
- Supported month-end close and financial reporting across 6 regions, ensuring accurate reconciliation of actuals against budget and prior period comparatives.
- Maintained financial models, trackers, and scenario analysis tools supporting quarterly forecasting and annual budget cycles with 96% forecast accuracy.
- Overhauled the data warehouse, integrating sales, inventory, and financial systems to improve analytics reliability and reporting consistency across the business.
- Recovered £5K in annual revenue by identifying underperforming regions through sales trend and market penetration analysis, reversing declining performance within 18 months.
- Delivered 12+ annual performance reports with interactive visualisations, directly influencing strategic planning, resource allocation, and market entry decisions.
- Accelerated regional expansion decisions by 12 months through executive dashboards ranking five regions by revenue, market potential, and profitability.
Data / Risk Analyst at Soft Pay System (2019-05 – 2021-08)
Analyst role within a financial services environment supporting risk reporting, data reconciliation, and multi-source data integration.
- Produced 20+ monthly Power BI and Excel intelligence reports with a 92% actionability rate, informing executive-level financial decisions and risk prevention activities.
- Built an early warning system integrating 15+ data sources via SQL pipelines, detecting emerging financial risks 72 hours faster than legacy systems.
- Reduced manual data reconciliation time by 60% by connecting disparate systems using SQL, Power Query, and Excel macros, enabling predictive financial analytics.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure accuracy of financial data outputs and strengthen internal controls across reporting processes.
